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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired another self--a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you'd devoted your life to fighting against? Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience--she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent...
2) Us
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Haunted by trauma from her past and compounded by a string of eerie coincidences, Adelaide grows increasingly certain that something bad is going to befall her family. After spending a tense beach day with their friends, Adelaide and her family return to their vacation home. When darkness falls, the Wilsons discover the silhouette of four figures holding hands as they stand in the driveway. The endearing American family faces doppelgangers of themselves....
4) Us
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Haunted by trauma from her past and compounded by a string of eerie coincidences, Adelaide grows increasingly certain that something bad is going to befall her family. After spending a tense beach day with their friends, Adelaide and her family return to their vacation home. When darkness falls, the Wilsons discover the silhouette of four figures holding hands as they stand in the driveway. The endearing American family faces doppelgangers of themselves....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The city of San Siroco is sinking. The basement of Dr. Tamsin Rivers, the arrogant, selfish head of the research team assigned to find the source of the subsidence, is sinking faster. As Tamsin grows obsessed with the distorting dimensions of the room at the bottom of the stairs, she finds a door that didn't exist before - and one night, it opens to reveal an exact physical copy of her. This doppelgänger is sweet and biddable where Tamsin is calculating...
6) The double
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Simon is a timid man, scratching out an isolated existence in an indifferent world. He is overlooked at work, scorned by his mother, and ignored by the woman of his dreams. He feels powerless to change any of these things. The arrival of a new co-worker, James, serves to upset the balance. James is both Simon's exact physical double and his opposite: confident, charismatic and good with women. To Simon's horror, James slowly starts taking over his...
Series
Criterion collection volume 359
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Français
Description
Weronika, a Polish choir soprano, and Veronique, a French music teacher, have never met. However, the two women have a supernatural bond that affects each other's lives.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A multiverse-hopping outsider discovers a secret that threatens her home world and her fragile place in it-a stunning sci-fi debut that's both a cross-dimensional adventure and a powerful examination of identity, privilege, and belonging. CARA IS DEAD ON THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR WORLDS. The multiverse business is booming, but there's just one catch: no one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose parallel...
9) Relentless
Author
Series
Dominion trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
11) Dead ringers
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When Tess Devlin runs into her ex-husband Nick on a Boston sidewalk, she's furious at him for pretending he doesn't know her. She calls his cell to have it out with him, only to discover that he's in New Hampshire with his current girlfriend. But if Nick's in New Hampshire...who did she encounter on the street? Frank Lindbergh's dreams have fallen apart. He wanted to get out of the grim neighborhood where he'd grown up and out of the shadow of his...
12) Unseen magic
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Fin has never felt safe until she and her mother move to the magic-infused town of Aldermere in the Pacific Northwest, but when the town is suddenly overrun with disturbances Fin is the only one who knows why--and she's the only one who can stop the havoc"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Andy and Terry live in a 169-story treehouse. (It used to be a 156-story treehouse, but they've added 13 more stories.) It now has a kangaroo-riding range, a whatever-weather-you-want dome and a hall of funhouse mirrors--the perfect place to hide from the truancy officer who is trying to catch them and make them go to school! Unfortunately, the hall of funhouse mirrors is also the place where their evil trouble-making twins, Anti-Andy, Terrible Terry...
14) The perfect trap
Publisher
VIAFILM GmbH & Co
Pub. Date
[2018].
Language
English
Description
"During a town fair, 10-year-old Frido encounters a magical mirror. With the mirrors' magic he creates a doppelgänger who is a better and smarter version of himself. With the help of his double, Frido starts giving up more and more responsibility at school and home. When Frido's secret is found out by his classmates, they too go to the mirror to create a double. Slowly but surely the kids realize they miss their old lives. Together they must create...
15) Merciful secrecy
Author
Series
Miracles and mysteries of Mercy Hospital volume 11
Publisher
Guideposts, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Anne Mabry loves her volunteer work at Mercy Hospital, and she loves the relationships she's been able to form with the staff. So, when she learns that nurse Katie McNamara is unsettled by a strange sequence of events, Anne can't help but wonder if someone is threatening her. When Anne later meets Katie's grandfather, a retired Atlanta detective, and learns that Katie was adopted after her father testified against the mob, Anne and her friends set...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Lily is chronically ill, but while her parents are welcoming a new baby she sneaks home from her grandmother's house and, aided by animal friends, combats the demons who have moved in.
Lily is used to hospitals--she's spent more time in them than out of them thanks to her recent health issues. But when her mother goes into labor, her parents drop her off at her grandmother's house and rush to the hospital without her. Lily doesn't want the new baby...
Author
Series
Forensic Instincts novel volume 6
Publisher
Bonnie Meadow Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Andrea Kane explores the urban legend of the doppelgange, as the favorite team of investigators find themselves in a conflict of interest between two clients. When one case unexpectedly intersects with the other, the only solution is to find the link between the two and unearth who is pulling the strings and why.
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Filmy spores fall from space over San Francisco, and the city blossoms with beautiful new flora. People take the flowers home and as they sleep, the plants creep over them, devouring their bodies and stealing their identities--including their emotions, their uniqueness and their souls.
19) Black paradox
Author
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Four people intent on killing themselves meet through the suicide website Black Paradox: Maruso, a nurse who despairs about the future; Taburo, a man who is tortured by his doppelganger; Pii-tan, an engineer with his own robot clone; and Baracchi, a woman who agonizes about the birthmark on her face. They wander together in search of the perfect death, fatefully opening a door that leads them to a rather bizarre destiny..."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Beth has never had any friends and she has always been kind of invisible at school, so when a new girl, Lizzie, moves into her building she thinks that she has finally found a best friend; but things turn creepy when Lizzie starts copying Beth so exactly that she might be a twin--and Beth starts to wonder if Lizzie is a friend or something a lot more sinister.